Eupalinos O Quotes & Sayings

I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all. — Paul Valery

Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom of the chivalrous knights and their milk-maid passion for the fairy tale princess. But I'm not like that ... inside. I'm not. I'm not. Never. Make it a savage war between us. Don't win me ... destroy me! — Alfred Bester

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people. — Huey Newton

I picked up the wireset and dialed in the number. "Lion Inn, room service. May we help you?" "Yes. This is Johan Eschbach. I ordered a dinner nearly an hour ago, and we still haven't seen it. Suite six-oh-three." "Yes, sir. Just a moment, sir." I waited. "He's already left, sir. Let us know if he's not there in five minutes." "I will." I turned to Llysette. "It's on the way." "On the way? And how proceeds it - by airship from Paris?" "By Brit rail - wide slow gauge. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay. — J.C. McKeown

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Friedrich Schiller

I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody. — Paul Valery

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself? — Paul Valery

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. — Lord Byron

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity. — Sendhil Mullainathan

I don't know why; when I look at you, I see myself — Rumi

This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind. — Paul Valery

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends. — Adam Sandler

But when we are searching for an example of what we no longer have, we see it everywhere. — Michael Ondaatje

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed! — Paul Valery

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. — Anthony Bourdain

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze. — Questlove

It is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks. — Jane Jacobs

at the core of every individual lies a unit of 'experiencing' which underlies the inconsistencies of the human personality. — Steven Ashe